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The same thing is happening with best-practices and best-practises. Perhaps we should merge questions like these into one "list of banned tag synonyms" question? (That's {banned tag} synonyms, not banned {tag synonyms}.)
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Pops♦Aug 10 '10 at 14:24

if we have to choose, my vote is definitely for [beginner]...
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Gordon GustafsonAug 10 '10 at 14:32

@gnovice: Time to change back to gnostradamus?
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mmyersAug 10 '10 at 14:37

@mmyers: "Every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in!"
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gnostradamusAug 10 '10 at 14:55

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@gnovice: I don't think anybody would have predicted otherwise - but 10 questions tagged [newbie] are easier to deal with than 5000 questions tagged [beginner]. Surely we can deal with these little flare-ups individually with the synonyms feature.
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AarobotAug 10 '10 at 15:18

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@Aarobot: I was really just joking a bit with my comment, but on a more serious note, how exactly does one create a tag synonym for a tag that has been banned? Normally, you create a synonym by going to the info page for that tag, but there is no page for a banned tag (at least not one I have found yet).
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gnostradamusAug 10 '10 at 15:40

@gnovice: You can still type the tag page into the address bar and get the info page, but it won't let you add a synonym. I assume that diamond mods can do this, though, and if not, certainly the admins can do it on the back-end. (Once we weed out the first few blacklist-workaround-tag attempts, I doubt that it'll come up often enough to matter.)
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AarobotAug 10 '10 at 18:36

There already was a [newbie] -> [beginner] synonym, so probably that was deleted when the tag was banned.
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sthAug 10 '10 at 18:53

How is this happening? I thought only high-rep users could create tags.
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Andrew GrimmAug 10 '10 at 23:22

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@Andrew If someone has already created a tag, then even if it is reduced to 0 in count someone will be able to add it to a question. As well, a lot of these tags did exist from very early on in the site and were simply never cleaned up, like [opinion].
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Grace Note♦Aug 12 '10 at 17:02

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@Grace Note: I thought zombie tags were killed at the end of the day!
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Andrew GrimmAug 13 '10 at 13:07